Opteron 150 - 939 pin

[The Borg]

Hi all,

My main machine is an AMD 939 socket board. I have upgraded it from a 3500+ to a 4800+ X2 some time back.

Well, 939 are on their way out I suppose. I want to know if it would be worth my while to upgrade one last time while I can to an Opteron 150. I have managed about about 450 MHz overclock on my X2. Could I get the same on the Opteron?

Also, in time to come, I plan to make this main machine of mine my home server.

Any commments or suggestions? Maybe try another Opteron if I can get hold of one?

Thanks in anticipation.

 

[lightstar]

i just upgraded one of my X2 4200+ 939 machines with a Q6600 ($179), DS3L motherboard ($89) & 2 GB RAM ($49). . . .i sold off the 939 parts on eBay for ~$210. so for a little over 100 bucks- got a tremendous upgrade. . . .since the 939 stuff is selling really well right now, you might consider a bigger upgrade like Q6600 or BE9850. GL!

 

[legoman666]

I was in the same boat as you a few months ago. I had a s939 3800+ X2 @ 2.7ghz. I was able to sell the board/cpu for ~$160 and 4x1gb of PC3500 for $210. I then upgraded to a X38 mobo, 4gb ddr2, and a Q6600 for ~ $500. If your budget is tighter, you could get a much cheaper mobo than I did, a cheaper CPU and less ram.

In your case, I wouldn't bother getting a Opteron unless it'll clock to 3.0ghz or so. You can put together a S775 system right now for so cheap that spending too much on a 939 chip is silly.

 

[networkman]

Well, I'm even further back.. my s939 rig is a Opty 146 oc'd @ 2.51, and I was wondering what to upgrade to as well. But I think I'm just gonna sell and get a newer machine as it doesn't seem worth the money to try to upgrade. It's nice that I've 2 Gig of ram, but it's DDR(1) and DDR2 is SO much cheaper by comparison. Supply & demand - I know.